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The Bond Street Shop showcases original work from local quality makers and designers.

The Bond Street Shop

The shop grew from a pop-up shop called Bond Street Studios and is the brainchild of Hingham based designer Lizzy Whitman ; a showcase for original pieces of work from local quality makers and designers. We operate as a collective of designers who live and work in Norfolk sharing creativity, inspiration, friendship and a passion for all things handmade.
In February 2011 the studios opened as an occasional pop-up shop in Lizzy’s delightful garden room. However, in response to customer demand, Bond Street Studios has expanded into new premises, open from Thursday to Sunday each week. The new shop is located in what was previously the ’Dairy’ in Bond Street; the tastefully renovated Georgian building comprises a light and airy shop area and sunny courtyard filled with beautiful plants and elegant topiary.
Work on show and for sale includes classic shift dresses made from vintage or up-cycled fabrics, hallmarked silver jewellery, lampwork glass beads, handmade handbags, felted and knitted accessories, ties and men’s accessories, textile gifts, paintings and prints, 'posh plants' and garden design, African baskets, buttons, ceramics and decorative glass pieces, a selection of greetings cards, handmade soaps , and much, much more! As all our products are handmade we are pleased to offer our customers a bespoke service if required. Core members of the collective have permanent yet constantly changing displays of work, whilst visiting or featured designers provide even more diversity. You never know what you will find at Bond Street Studios!


BOND STREET STUDIOS- CORE MEMBER BIOGRAPHIES
Lizzy Whitman- (Ladieswear )
Lizzy is the inspiration behind Bond Street Studios! She trained at the London College of Fashion and has worked with Zandra Rhodes and other couture designers. Lizzy’s stunning shift dresses and skirts are beautifully hand crafted using vintage or up-cycled fabrics. Dresses can be made to order in a variety of fabrics or obtained from stock.
Zena Rowland ( African basket ware)
Zena has several products under her wing. African baskets handmade from grass and recycled plastic make ideal laundry or general baskets for the home. A percentage of the profit goes back to the village in Senegal where they are produced, where they are hoping to build a library. Her past experience includes the role of buyer for a well known London department store and purchasing gifts and lifestyle accessories for a small but highly respected local shop. She is always talent scouting for well designed, unusual pieces which support the small business.
Felicity Withers (Bead maker)
Previously a fabric designer and colourist, Felicity's textile background has influenced her current work. She creates stunning glass beads from molten glass soda in every colour of the rainbow. This is solitary and meditative work using lampwork techniques as practised by the Romans... the result, an explosion of variety, colour and design in just 2gms of glass.


MOIRA VENN ( Merton Silver – Jewellery ) Moira began silversmithing about eight years ago and gradually developed her skills and individual style to produce a range of hallmarked sterling silver jewellery that she does not consider pretty, but rather more striking and interesting. Different techniques are used in one piece (e.g. hammering, piercing and folding etc) and sometimes combined with semi-precious stones, other metals and beads. Moira’s work can be seen at Bond Street Studios in Hingham and in the shop at the Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, U.E.A., Norwich.

Marion Baker (Textile gifts )
Marion produces individual work covering felting, knitting, crochet and embroidery. Whilst recently developing a range of individual baby wear pieces she also makes accessories from specialist yarns and fibres. Her embroidered textile pieces are regularly exhibited with "Out of The Fold", a textile group based in Bury St Edmunds and due to be featured in 2014 Knitting & Stitching Show at Alexandra Palace.

Ali Jenkins (The House of Bamboo – handmade handbags)
A trained fashion designer/ illustrator Ali enjoyed a long career in London as a lifestyle / creative craft maker, writer and author before relocating to Norfolk. Ali creates handmade handbags and home wares in her studio (The House of Bamboo) using new, vintage and up-cycled materials and all sorts of interesting stuff! Work from the House of Bamboo features regularly in Norfolk’s many handmade / artisan fairs including: The Golden Triangle Makers Market, Norwich Makers Market, The Makers Emporium, and seasonal craft fairs at The Assembly House and Blickling Hall.

ANGELA JONES (Textile gifts. Artisans-uk )
Angela Jones of Artisans-uk has been designing appliqué cushions, pictures, and textile gifts for several years. She particularly enjoys using traditional fabrics such as Liberty prints and linens. Angela decided to turn her passion for textiles into a business when her daughters left home to go to university. She has exhibited at a variety of events including Country Living and is now enjoying being part of the Bond Street Studios group.


VISITING AND FEATURED ARTISTS AND DESIGNERS
ZELDA EADY: In her practice as an artist-printmaker, Zelda uses a variety of printmaking techniques and enjoys pushing the printmaking process beyond what is usually done, often using several processes together to create unique pieces of art as well as small limited editions. Zelda trained at the Curwen Print Study Centre and has been working as a part time tutor for the last 4 years. Zelda is a member of Breckland Artists in Norfolk, The Espacio Gallery Artist cooperative in London and participates regularly in Norfolk Open Studios.
JANE IRONSIDE: Although a traditional painter, Jane works in a variety of media to suit the subject, these include 3 D, mixed media and printmaking; often focusing on the environment, climate change, and particularly the coast and local rivers and woodlands; journeys, both inner and outer, and what we discover there. During the process of painting, memories of people, places and events both from the past and in the imagination are awakened and often become part of the work.
SARAH CASWELL: Sarah attained a BA in Silversmithing , has worked as a milliner for Stephen Jones in London and run her own fashion/millinery/jewellery business in Australia. Throughout this time Sarah retained her love of traditional painting and now devotes her time to creating really large, really bright images of flowers. These bold images are available as original canvases and prints, and also as greetings cards and tableware.
JENNY WILLIAMS: Jennifer studied Contemporary Crafts at BA level then specialised in Ceramics for her MA, at Bath Spa University. Free-form domestic scaled Porcelain vessels are decorated with printed repeat pattern using a Mono-Printing process, where the design is drawn into coloured slip (liquid clay) on a sheet of plaster, then transferred to the clay. The clay is decorated before the vessel is built, so the piece can be built to compliment the surface that has been created.
SUZANNE LAKE – (Made from my Heart): Suzanne makes make unique wooden gifts, for children, women and men from my farmhouse home in Norfolk. Most of my designs are inspired by my surroundings and my Canadian heritage. I love country living and shabby chic designs as well, but most of all I love making things for other people.